Variability features associated with ozone column and surface UV irradiance observed over Svalbard from 2008 to 2014

• Published in: Rendiconti Lincei
• Main Authors: PETKOV Boyan H., VITALE Vito, MAZZOLA Mauro, LUPI Angelo, LANCONELLI Christian, VIOLA Angelo Pietro, BUSETTO Maurizio
• Language: English
• Published: SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC105280; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12210-016-0530-x; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-016-0530-x

The present report shortly summarises the conclusions about the ozone column and solar UV irradiance variability that were achieved through the analysis of the data obtained from the narrow-band filter radiometer UV-RAD, operating at Ny-Ålesund from 2008 to 2014. The polar summer gives the opportunity to register the solar irradiance 24 h per day during several months that provides comparatively long continuous time series as regards for the short- (diurnal) and medium-term (monthly) variations. To exclude the hypothesis about the artificial nature of the large amplitudes registered in the short-term ozone column variations, which can be due to the measurement or methodological errors, they were related to the corresponding variations in the solar UV radiation. In addition, these oscillations were studied using the methods developed for the analysis of non-linear dynamical systems that revealed a complex chaotic interaction between the ozone column and five other atmospheric factors. This approach leads to the conclusion that the short-term variations can be predicted for 10–20 h if a long history is available. The effect of a sporadic phenomenon, such as the ozone depletion event, occurred over Arctic in the spring of 2011, which can be considered an impulse perturbation of the medium-term ozone variations, on the mid-latitude ozone column and surface solar UV irradiance has been studied by analysing the data collected from six surface stations. JRC.D.6 - Knowledge for Sustainable Development and Food Security